wine users - Feb 2005 - Getting Rosetta Stone language software to work

Hi, I'm trying to run a software package called Rosetta Stone (It's a
language training package)

Anyway this is the closest match in the AppDB
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=2497
Though my version is 2.0.8.1N

The catch of this software in general is that the CD needs to be in the
drive for it to work.

I got them to send me a version where this isn't true, but in windows it
requires me to use the subst command so that my directory looks like a
drive (or to create a share and use net use)

So now when I launch it with wine, it tells me no language pack found,
which is what I expect, since I'm guessing it searches A:,B:,...,Z: and if
it doesn't find what it expects in any of those locations it gives up.

Or maybe it uses whatever that registry entry is for mapped drives? I
dunno. I'm hoping there's a way to make a link in Linux so that I can
get
this software running (it's that 2nd to last reason I ever reboot to
Windows)

I tried ln -s /directory/to/languagepack /M:

And that made a link, but didn't alleviate the problem.
I tried ln -s /directory/to/languagepack M:
and that failed as expected
I tried ln -s /directory/to/languagepack ./M: in the application
directory, and that failed as well (not as I expected)

My wine version is 20041201 running on Debian Unstable

Thanks for any help. (Sorry for being long winded, figured better too much
info than too little.)

Problem solved, as most of you probably already know, it was adding the
link to ~/.wine/dosdevices

Also I had to recopy the data over as the case is important and when I had
copied the data in windows it did not perserve case



> Hi, I'm trying to run a software package called Rosetta Stone (It's
a
> language training package)
>
> Anyway this is the closest match in the AppDB
> http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=2497
> Though my version is 2.0.8.1N
>
> The catch of this software in general is that the CD needs to be in the
> drive for it to work.
>
> I got them to send me a version where this isn't true, but in windows
it
> requires me to use the subst command so that my directory looks like a
> drive (or to create a share and use net use)
>
> So now when I launch it with wine, it tells me no language pack found,
> which is what I expect, since I'm guessing it searches A:,B:,...,Z: and
if
> it doesn't find what it expects in any of those locations it gives up.
>
> Or maybe it uses whatever that registry entry is for mapped drives? I
> dunno. I'm hoping there's a way to make a link in Linux so that I
can get
> this software running (it's that 2nd to last reason I ever reboot to
> Windows)
>
> I tried ln -s /directory/to/languagepack /M:
>
> And that made a link, but didn't alleviate the problem.
> I tried ln -s /directory/to/languagepack M:
> and that failed as expected
> I tried ln -s /directory/to/languagepack ./M: in the application
> directory, and that failed as well (not as I expected)
>
> My wine version is 20041201 running on Debian Unstable
>
> Thanks for any help. (Sorry for being long winded, figured better too much
> info than too little.)
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>

Am Mo, Feb 21, 2005 at 03:16:46 -0500 schrieb
mailinglist@brenart.net:
> I tried ln -s /directory/to/languagepack /M:
> 
> And that made a link, but didn't alleviate the problem.
> I tried ln -s /directory/to/languagepack M:
> and that failed as expected
> I tried ln -s /directory/to/languagepack ./M: in the application
> directory, and that failed as well (not as I expected)
Your links are wrong. Use

ln -s /directory/to/languagepack ~/.wine/dosdevices/m:

Read the manpage about ln to understand what you are doing.

Regards
	Joachim
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          Never run a touchy system!!!"